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By Jay Adams CEG CORRESPONDENT
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has started shoring the granite walls of the facade and the sub-standard portion of the heavily-traveled George Washington Bridge in order to replace it with a much wider bike path for cyclists, a new traffic ramp and a spectacular linear park. Similar to the 2008 reconstruction of the India Point Park Pedestrian Bridge, which parallels the Washington Bridge (just north of the Providence-East Providence line), this project will make a new area for walkers and cyclists. Cardi Corporation of Warwick is the general contractor of the $21.2 million job. The job will involve rebuilding the
cracked section of the original bridge that carries the existing narrow bikeway and a section of the original highway. In the same footprint will stand a much wider bikeway, a linear park, walking path, scenic overlooks, park benches, flag poles, decorative lighting and landscaped planters when it is finished mid-summer 2014. The new path and park will be named after legendary local cyclist George Redman, the man credited a quarter century ago with getting the state to change its stance on obsolete railways and roads to create the East Bay Bike Path and other state bike lanes, which now crisscross all of Rhode Island and are considered among the top bike paths in the entire nation. see WASHINgTON page 4